What's on / Archive 2017-05-22

7 May-15 Oct. MACRO celebrates "40 years of Street Art and Writing" with a large-scale exhibition comprising work by some of the most important Italian and international artists associated with the mo...

17 May-25 Nov. The prestigious Accademia Nazionale di S. Luca presents a retrospective of the work of Luigi Ontani, considered one of Italy's most innovative contemporary artists.
The exhibition com...

29 April-10 Sept. This digital art exhibition explores the common ground shared by the creative arts and science.
The dynamic show combines disciplines as diverse as robotics, information visualisat...

19 May-16 June. The Brazilian embassy to Italy in Piazza Navona hosts Parque Lage, the first solo exhibition in Rome by Lucio Salvatore, an Italian artist based in Rio de Janeiro where he has held sev...

19 May-17 Sept. The Galleria Nazionale presents a selection of works from the ”la Caixa" collection of contemporary art, which was founded in 1985 by Spain's ”la Caixa" banking foundation and now comp...

17 May-2 July. Charles Ray: Mountain Lion Attacking a Dog. At the invitation of the American Academy, leading US sculptor Charles Ray has created a new work exploring the theme of "American Classics."...

12 May-9 July. Urbanist, historian and author of Roma moderna, Italo Insolera was also a photographer whose 50 images on display at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere document developments in city life i...

13 May-26 Nov. Under the title Viva Arte Viva, the 2017 edition of the prestigious Venice Biennale is curated by Christine Macel. This year's theme is described as "an exclamation, a passionate outcry...

4 May-2 July. The French Academy – Villa Medici presents One Day I Broke A Mirror, an exhibition by Yoko Ono and Claire Tabournet, as part of the academy's Giovedì della Villa programme involving pers...

6 May-4 June. Galleria Varsi presents Mercy, the first Italian show by Evoca1, a Miami-based figurative painter from the Dominican Republic. The artist is known for his large-scale murals representing...

21 April-18 June. The municipal rose garden located on the eastern side of the Aventine hill reopens on 21 April, on the occasion of Rome's birthday, and can be visited daily from 08.30-19.30, until 1...

13 April-12 Nov. Two outdoor spectacles with music, light projections and historical commentary will be held at the Forum of Caesar and the Forum of Augustus every night from 13 April until 12 Novembe...

22 March-15 Oct. Punti di Vista (Points of View) is an exhibition by German photographer Kerstin Schomburg who, during the summer of 2015, followed in the footsteps of important landscape artist and f...

14 April-30 July. Under the subheading Masterpieces of the Italian Seicento from the Spanish Royal Collection, this blockbuster exhibition reflects the close political and cultural links between the S...

24 March-2 July. The Chiostro del Bramante pays tribute to New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose colourful and controversial career was cut short in 1988 after a heroin overdose at the age of 27...

31 March-17 Sept. The Ara Pacis uses 250 archaeological finds to examine the complex history of slavery in ancient Rome, with particular focus on the slave revolt led by Spartacus against the Roman Re...

15 March-11 June. Palazzo Barberini presents six works by three Venetian Renaissance masters - Lorenzo Lotto, Girolamo Savoldo and Giovanni Cariani - on loan from the Metropolitan in New York, the Lou...

10 Feb-18 June. Exhibition dedicated to Gregor Mendel, the scientist, Augustinian friar and misunderstood genius whose ground-breaking genetic discoveries were not recognised until the turn of the 20t...